You guys are awesome! Hats off to you and your crew for keeping these classic works of art alive! So much knowledge about classic cabinets. Great channel!
I love the vector beam television set it looks awesome.... and the sound with that bass just tops it off nicely. Oh and I have about a dozen florescent bulbs that need to be filled. Should I just send them to you?
Thanks for the info on the interlock switch Todd, I believe the one on my cabinet is straight up defective . To bypass that rear interlock, is it just connect the two black wires and connect the two white wires? I don't want to mess this up.
You guys did a great job!!! Would you suggest any tips for me to refurbish my machine? :( The paint on the sides are alright, but it's the front - very rough looking (no rust) and I'm waiting on a new speaker and buttons to come in. I would like to do the paint over as well, but I'm so inexperience with this I'm not sure where to start :)
you can buy a new control panel overlay and the cardboard monitor insert from Arcade Shop. We use Clark and Essington high gloss black paint from Ace Hardware for the black area and a small roller so there are no brush marks!
Hi Todd, In your video you mentioned that you buffed the glass on your Asteroids Restoration, can you kindly do a video, of how to properly buff a let's say Centipede, or Asteroids Cocktail game, I would sit in the front row to learn how to do that?
plexiglass is the only thing you can buff....we cannot buff real glass! Asteroids is plexiglass...you use a large buffer with Novus #3, then use Novus #2
Hello TH-cam! I'm looking for the 6 bolts for the legs of a cocktail asteroids.. anyone either know the dimensions of the bolts, or where I can buy these parts?
Hi, Where do I buy a new yoke for the vector monitor? I have seen Well Gardner XY monitors sold on eBay but WITHOUT the yoke, etc. I would like to be able to use the monitor and proper yoke and whatever else connected. Thank you for any information.
unebonnevie I do not have any myself and they are not made anymore...your best bet is to look on the arcade game newsgroups and rustle one up that way! Todd
6:30 "a new set of ROMs ... that means somebody can't hog the game for an entire afternoon". After a change to strategy, no one I knew was stopped from playing the game for as long as they wanted. (of course we stopped at 99990 when there were quarters up).
rarecoolitems That's right...the low profile cash pan overflowed and some vendors cut out the wood and put in small trash cans to catch all the quarters!
lets see. Heat , Humidity. shutting the fans off on games eh no. not sure how the games would like it if you shut the fans off on the heatsinks that have them :) definitely not on a high end SLI style video card.
Lee Bartholomew Lee...the manufacturers never had fans on their games in the 70's and 80's. except Electroholme puit fans in their wretched vector monitors because they got so hot you could cook a steak on them...but not until the hard drives did the fans appear!
TNT Amusements Inc yeah until they started pushing the machines. then the fans came. Although many of them clearly didn't need them. has everything to do with airflow. now airflow probably no game. always a bit of a debate on CPU fans. blow towards the CPU or away. believe it's towards the cpu but I'm getting rusty. unless one has like a 10 pound heatsink made of copper like my brother did that eventually snapped the motherboard down the middle (smack)
Bimmy Lee well probably why I was always good at pinball :P always kept my eye on the ball unfortunately when it's more than one that gets complicated but I try :)
You guys are awesome! Hats off to you and your crew for keeping these classic works of art alive! So much knowledge about classic cabinets. Great channel!
frank is great love hearing his wonderful supporting comments
That's my Frank!
his comments are always so funny and supporting
hes a good man!
As always, great job, TNT! love these old machines!
Guillaume Derycke Glad you are watching!!
You guys are doing important work! Keep it up, amazing.
Thank you Alex
I love the vector beam television set it looks awesome.... and the sound with that bass just tops it off nicely.
Oh and I have about a dozen florescent bulbs that need to be filled. Should I just send them to you?
AnalogX64 Yes...attention "dumpster"!
This video just made my day!
Glad you enjoyed it..hope you subscribed!
That bit with the fluorescent bulb got me. That was a good joke. ;)
badreality2 Glad you laughed!!
I haved played this game on the first generation of the Xbox I love this game
:-)
looks to be a later version,802 instead of the 801 and newer coin door.
Paul Juray Yes...made both ways with the older "Owl's eye" door and the newer coinco door.
Thanks for the info on the interlock switch Todd, I believe the one on my cabinet is straight up defective . To bypass that rear interlock, is it just connect the two black wires and connect the two white wires? I don't want to mess this up.
Thats correct...we bypass them all...not needed and causes service calls!
You guys did a great job!!! Would you suggest any tips for me to refurbish my machine? :( The paint on the sides are alright, but it's the front - very rough looking (no rust) and I'm waiting on a new speaker and buttons to come in. I would like to do the paint over as well, but I'm so inexperience with this I'm not sure where to start :)
you can buy a new control panel overlay and the cardboard monitor insert from Arcade Shop. We use Clark and Essington high gloss black paint from Ace Hardware for the black area and a small roller so there are no brush marks!
Hi Todd, In your video you mentioned that you buffed the glass on your Asteroids Restoration, can you kindly do a video, of how to properly buff a let's say Centipede, or Asteroids Cocktail game, I would sit in the front row to learn how to do that?
plexiglass is the only thing you can buff....we cannot buff real glass! Asteroids is plexiglass...you use a large buffer with Novus #3, then use Novus #2
I should send you my Asteroids. It works but has not been turned on in over 3 to 4 years.
Overhauls are the way to go..they run between $800 and $1200 on Asteroids! Todd
I still wait for a video where you say VBTV (Vectorbeam-Television-Set) :D
Hello TH-cam! I'm looking for the 6 bolts for the legs of a cocktail asteroids.. anyone either know the dimensions of the bolts, or where I can buy these parts?
Todd, I want to hear you saying "the game features a VBTV (Vector-Beam-Television-Set) in your next Asteroids-Video....do that for me, please :D
+Hirthirt hirt Will do it in an upcoming Asteroids game we are doing now!
Hi,
Where do I buy a new yoke for the vector monitor? I have seen Well Gardner XY monitors sold on eBay but WITHOUT the yoke, etc. I would like to be able to use the monitor and proper yoke and whatever else connected. Thank you for any information.
unebonnevie I do not have any myself and they are not made anymore...your best bet is to look on the arcade game newsgroups and rustle one up that way! Todd
Waiting for blackhole :)
What casters do you use when you refurbish the Asteroids machines?
We use standard 2 inch on the video games...they are flat and called leg levelers
used also on the legs of pinball machines
Thank you! Can you post a link or let me know where I can buy them?
I clicked on it because the thumbnail told me it might be funny so went for this instead of Tic Tac :P
Lee Bartholomew We try to put funny stuff into every video...but its tough as we crank these out pretty fast, as we are selling so many games!
TNT Amusements Inc
thats a good thing. and keeping the conversation going does to. ;)
6:30 "a new set of ROMs ... that means somebody can't hog the game for an entire afternoon". After a change to strategy, no one I knew was stopped from playing the game for as long as they wanted. (of course we stopped at 99990 when there were quarters up).
hautedaug Yes...they had to do somethign!
My brother hogged the game all afternoon.
Both of them. I forgot to mention, it was 8hrs on one quarter.
And it was the machine in the video.
:-)
Belly bump LOL
Asteroids would overflow with quarters and put the game out of order
rarecoolitems That's right...the low profile cash pan overflowed and some vendors cut out the wood and put in small trash cans to catch all the quarters!
lets see. Heat , Humidity. shutting the fans off on games eh no. not sure how the games would like it if you shut the fans off on the heatsinks that have them :) definitely not on a high end SLI style video card.
Lee Bartholomew Lee...the manufacturers never had fans on their games in the 70's and 80's. except Electroholme puit fans in their wretched vector monitors because they got so hot you could cook a steak on them...but not until the hard drives did the fans appear!
TNT Amusements Inc
yeah until they started pushing the machines. then the fans came. Although many of them clearly didn't need them. has everything to do with airflow. now airflow probably no game. always a bit of a debate on CPU fans. blow towards the CPU or away. believe it's towards the cpu but I'm getting rusty. unless one has like a 10 pound heatsink made of copper like my brother did that eventually snapped the motherboard down the middle (smack)
Todd you said shit at 5:07...
& the ladies require extra payment for any video recording... you should know that by now? :-)
might be able to see one in the reflection of the monitor... ahem television set :P
Lee Bartholomew
You need to change your user name to: eagle eye.
Bimmy Lee
well probably why I was always good at pinball :P always kept my eye on the ball unfortunately when it's more than one that gets complicated but I try :)